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CBS says it has returned notes belonging to journalist who was 'fired for investigating Hunter Biden' and denies trying to stop her reporting as Ted Cruz insists she was punished for going after the truth
DAILY MAIL ^ | 23 February 2024 | KEITH GRIFFITH

Posted on 02/24/2024 7:00:53 AM PST by george76

CBS News has returned the notes it seized from a high-profile reporter the network fired for 'investigating Hunter Biden' ..

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SAG-AFTRA, the CBS workers' union, called the seizure of her notes 'completely inappropriate' and 'very unusual'.

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CBS News has returned the notes it seized from a high-profile reporter the network fired for 'investigating Hunter Biden.'

Catherine Herridge, a veteran reporter covering national security and intelligence, was among the hundreds of CBS employees who were laid off by parent company Paramount last week.

Herridge covered investigations into the Biden family, and the network seized her personal notes after her termination in a move her union calls 'completely inappropriate' and 'very unusual.'

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'This action is deeply concerning to the union because it sets a dangerous precedent for all media professionals and threatens the very foundation of the First Amendment

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Herridge had recently covered the House impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, special counsel Robert Hur's report on his handling of classified documents, and the criminal charges against Hunter Biden.

Her inclusion in recent layoffs puzzled some industry observers, as she regularly broke news and landed scoops for CBS.

'Catherine Herridge has been a unicorn, a reporter for the corporate media for CBS, and she has been willing to actually report on the Biden corruption so what did CBS do? They laid her off?' Senator Ted Cruz

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Herridge had been pursuing a story related to Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop, and that she had 'encountered roadblocks' from management over her coverage of the First Son.

Herridge in November 2022 authenticated the laptop, which the Post had first reported on in October 2020.

Separately, Herridge has been in the middle of a high-profile court battle over her refusal to reveal sources for articles she wrote in 2017.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: george76

“SAG-AFTRA, the CBS workers’ union, called the seizure of her notes ‘completely inappropriate’ and ‘very unusual’.”

What are they complaining about, they got who they wanted in power.


21 posted on 02/24/2024 8:21:08 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: McGavin999

Bkmk


22 posted on 02/24/2024 8:22:09 AM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: george76

I get it! This is a subtle “We know who you are now!” message to the people that she interviewed. And should the time come when congress wants to interview them, they suddenly won’t be available.


23 posted on 02/24/2024 8:36:45 AM PST by FrankRizzo890
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To: george76

Ted is correct about that, and SeeBS is lying, as they always do. It’s clear that SeeBS was doing the bidding of the regime.


24 posted on 02/24/2024 8:38:12 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: george76

later


25 posted on 02/24/2024 8:52:12 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: Bob434

JUST THE SAME AS HILLARY AFTER THE FBI FILES WERE STOLEN


26 posted on 02/24/2024 8:53:31 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Reno89519

Journalism, I think rightly, has historically been ruled by ethical standards unique to itself. A free press requires the use of sources protected and cultivated by the individual journalists. One could argue as you have that CBS paid for and thus owns her work product. The issue is will CBS continue pursuing her work and more importantly keep her sources confidential. One historical safeguard against a news organization releasing the names of confidential sources, is for the individual journalist maintaining sole custody of their sources identities. CBS has broken with this precedence and it is not hard to figure out why.


27 posted on 02/24/2024 8:54:02 AM PST by Pres Raygun (Repent America)
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To: clintonh8r

Because FNC went PROG/WOKE/LIB many years ago!


28 posted on 02/24/2024 8:54:28 AM PST by 5th MEB (1)
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To: Pres Raygun
Journalism, I think rightly, has historically been ruled by ethical standards

You wrote that without laughing? Over the last 10-20 years they openly disgarded any ethical standards. They no longer investigate, they no longer report the truth, they no longer leave their personal bias, bigotry, and views at the door. I've seen repeated comments by well-known reporters saying their views must be shared, are more important than the truth.

29 posted on 02/24/2024 9:04:30 AM PST by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: Reno89519

The way to look at this is think of the mass media as the Mob.

They are lying immoral thieving enemies of the people.

But—they still have an internal code.

They broke that code.


30 posted on 02/24/2024 9:07:39 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: george76

the reporter needs to sue them for 50 million, and if CBS says they are innocent, then sue them against for defamation!

(because in the Trump era this is how justice works now)


31 posted on 02/24/2024 9:07:57 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: george76

I hope Newsmax picks her up, she would be a good fit.


32 posted on 02/24/2024 9:48:41 AM PST by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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To: Reno89519

MY view of employer/employee is like this: you hired me to do X in the manner of Y which is how you have had the work done previously. Now I perceive that job X can be done in the manner of Z at great savings and increased profits. But you expect me to give you that new process for nothing addtional despite having paid me no more than necessary to have the work done in the old process.

No way.
I refuse to sign the intellectual property agreements unless fairly compensated. And have been hired anyway.


33 posted on 02/24/2024 9:57:30 AM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: Freest Republican
Yet no fascist state in the history of the world has ever had open borders.

Until now. Normalcy Bias will kill you.

34 posted on 02/24/2024 10:00:10 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Tonight on The Bickersons... )
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To: hoosierham
And that is your choice in the employer-employee agreement you make. But what about CBS? Nowhere do I see any mention that the reporter had agreement in place the retain the product of her work, the intellectual property, notes, etc. that the employee created while being paid to work for the employer.

If she claimed that by contract it was shared or hers, fine. But if not, it is not hers, it is theft by her to take or keep it.

Further, however politically inconvenient it is, it is up to the employer to decide what to do with it. In this case, they may have shared it with others, they also now give some or all of it to her.

35 posted on 02/24/2024 10:16:26 AM PST by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: george76

Yeah it probably didn’t take them an hour to have the government make a copy of the hard drive.

We are not stupid.


36 posted on 02/24/2024 10:21:07 AM PST by Revel
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To: george76

https://nypost.com/2024/02/22/business/cbs-seizes-confidential-files-of-fired-reporter-pursuing-hunter-biden-laptop-story-in-unprecedented/


37 posted on 02/24/2024 10:26:48 AM PST by Brown Deer
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To: clintonh8r
Herridge is an ace. I can’t understand why FNC let her get away.

They were more interested in marketing and promoting pretty younger things with yellow hair than pushing her stuff out.

38 posted on 02/24/2024 10:26:57 AM PST by paltz
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Herridge is under fire for not complying with US District Judge Christopher Cooper’s order to reveal how she learned about a federal probe into a Chinese American scientist who operated a graduate program in Virginia.

The journalist may soon be held in contempt of court for not divulging her source for an investigative piece she penned in 2017 when she worked for Fox News.


39 posted on 02/24/2024 10:27:58 AM PST by Brown Deer
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To: Chgogal

Funny. Turning corrupt Trump’s money to the corrupt state of New York. Sort of off setting penalties?


40 posted on 02/24/2024 10:28:19 AM PST by joesbucks (It's called love-bombing. Claiming he's saving the world. This is a cult. Just back away. )
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